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Welcome to Spotlight Advanced.
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I'm Alice Irizarry and I'm Andrew Davis.
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Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting.
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It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live.
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He was the most famous person in the world.
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He was the best at what he did.
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He was young with many great years ahead of him.
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He was rich and powerful.
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He could have done anything he wanted.
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But then, something terrible happened that forever changed his life.
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He had to do something to fix what happened.
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But there was no way to repair the damage.
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He had to live with it.
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He did not know how.
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The only thing he could think of to deal with the pain was to play baseball.
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Today's spotlight looks at the year when Michael Jordan decided to stop playing basketball and play baseball instead.
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Jordan was a basketball player for the Chicago Bulls during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Jordan played basketball in the National Basketball Association or NBA.
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Basketball is a team sport played with a ball and a hoop.
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From 1991 to 1993, Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to three straight championships.
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He was the best player in the NBA.
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Many believed he was the best player of all time.
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Larry Bird played for the Boston Celtics against Jordan's Bulls.
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Bird was one of the greatest basketball players ever.
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Bird once said after a game against Jordan, That was not Michael Jordan out there.
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That was God.
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hiding as Michael Jordan.
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After his third championship, Jordan was tired from playing so much basketball.
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He had nothing left to prove.
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He had already done everything he wanted to do in the NBA.
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He was thinking about retiring from basketball.
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On July 23, 1993, Jordan's father James was driving home from Wilmington,
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North Carolina dinner in the United States, to Charlotte, North Carolina.
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It was over a three -hour drive.
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James had been at a friend's funeral and left late that night.
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During his drive, he became too tired and pulled over to the side of the road to sleep.
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Two teenagers, Larry Demery and Daniel Green, saw the car.
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One of the windows was rolled down.
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They decided to tie James up and steal his car.
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But James woke up.
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The two young men shot James in the chest and killed him.
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They drove away and later dumped James's body in a small river.
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James's body was not discovered for a few weeks.
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Police found the body and identified James by looking at his teeth.
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Police caught Demry and Green because they made several calls on James's car phone.
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Police connected the two teenagers to the calls and arrested them.
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Demry and Green were later sent to prison for the rest of their lives.
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Jordan and his father had been very close.
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His father came to as many of Jordan's games as possible.
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He gave Jordan guidance and was always willing to listen to whatever problems Jordan was dealing with.
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Jordan did not know what to do.
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He did not feel like playing basketball anymore.
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But he was still young and restless.
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He missed his father.
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He needed to do something to fill the emptiness that he felt.
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Jordan decided that what he did next should be for his father, not for himself.
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Jordan's father had always loved baseball.
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He had tried to persuade Jordan to play baseball instead of basketball.
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His father had hoped that one day Jordan would try to play baseball again.
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Three months after his father's death, Jordan announced that he was retiring from basketball.
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A few months later, he agreed to play baseball for the Chicago White Sox organization.
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Baseball is a team sport played with a bat and a ball.
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It's played on a large field.
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The players score by hitting the ball and running around the field.
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Jerry Reinsdorf owned both the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox.
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He wanted Jordan to succeed in baseball.
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He liked Jordan.
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He knew that he could make money if Jordan did well in baseball.
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Before Jordan could play for the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball, he had to start with the Birmingham Barons in the AA level of the minor leagues.
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Minor League Baseball had over 120 teams across the United States and Canada.
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Major League Baseball teams control these minor league teams.
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players improve their baseball skills in the minor leagues in hopes
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of reaching major league baseball there are several levels in the minor leagues that get harder to test a player's ability
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Reinsdorf got one of the White Sox managers
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and one of their players to spend extra time teaching Jordan
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the manager Herm Schneider said Jordan was a great basketball player
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when it came to baseball he was in new territory he loved baseball
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but he did not necessarily understand how to move his body
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so we had to teach him they taught jordan baseball skills
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they showed him the correct way to hold a baseball they
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taught him how to move his feet in the out field
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when he played defense jordan learned how to use a bat he learned how to run around the field
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Jordan had to prove to the coaches, fans, and other players that he deserved to be on the Barons' team.
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Some people said that Jordan should not have been given a place on a minor league team.
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They believed he only got a chance because his popularity would make more people come to games.
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They thought Jordan was too old to try to become a major league baseball player.
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On average, a player spent three to five years in the minor leagues before he reached Major League Baseball.
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Some players never made it to Major League Baseball.
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Jordan was already 31 years old when he started playing in the minor leagues.
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Even if he made it to Major League Baseball, he would not be able to play long before his age affected his skills.
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Jordan worked as hard and as fast as he could to improve at baseball.
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During his only full season in the minor leagues, he played 127 games with the Barons.
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He only had 88 hits, and over 400 times he came to bat.
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But his speed helped him run the bases well.
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Jordan's hitting also improved over the season.
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467 ,000 fans came to see the Barons with Jordan.
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The team set minor league attendance records.
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Jordan got a new bus for the Barons to take to games.
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Jordan stayed after games to sign his name for fans.
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David Schaefer, the Chicago White Sox director of park operations, said.
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It was hard to believe.
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Jordan would be at the game all day in extreme heat.
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The sun would be out.
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He would stand there and just sign and sign and sign things for fans.
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Everybody else had already cleaned up and gone home, but Jordan would be standing there every day.
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After his season with the Barons, Jordan played in the Arizona Fall League.
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His hitting improved.
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Jordan started trusting that he could play baseball well.
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Then, Major League Baseball had a strike from August of 1994 to April of 1995.
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A strike meant that Major League players refused to play games until their demands were accepted by owners.
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The strike did not affect Jordan and the other minor league players.
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But in the spring of 1995, major league teams began moving minor league players up to the
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major leagues to fill empty spots on teams left by the strike.
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Jordan did not want to move up this way.
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He only wanted to play in the major leagues if he earned a place on a team.
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Not because a better player was on strike.
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Jordan also wanted to respect the Players Union, the organization representing the players on strike.
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Unsure of how long the strike would last, Jordan decided to play basketball again for the Chicago Bulls.
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He missed basketball.
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Somewhere during the year of riding on a bus to play minor league baseball games, he found the joy and desire to return to basketball.
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Jordan later said, I was on top for so long in basketball that I forgot about the steps to get to that.
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That is what minor league baseball did to me.
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Jordan never made it to major league baseball like his father had hoped.
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But he tried as hard as he could.
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He wanted to see if he could do it.
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But mostly, Jordan wanted to say thank you to his father.
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Jordan could not ask his father questions anymore.
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He could not eat dinner with him after games.
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Jordan told the world how much his father meant to him by playing his father's favorite game, even though some said he should not do it.
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Others made fun of him for struggling at baseball.
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But Jordan would not listen.
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He wanted to give his father one last gift.
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Jordan understood that it was a gift for each of them.
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Did you know Michael Jordan tried to play baseball?
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Do you think he could have played Major League Baseball if he had not returned to basketball?
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What is your favourite memory of your father?
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The writer of this episode was Peter Anderson.
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The producer was Michio Ozaki.
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The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom.
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All quotes were adapted for this episode and voiced by Spotlight.
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No AI or artificial intelligence was used in this episode.
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Spotlight episodes are written, voiced and produced by real people, for real people, no matter where in the world they live.
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This episode is called The Only Father's Day Gift Michael Jordan Could Give.
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We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight episode.
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O Cenário: Uma História que Mistura Lutas e Liderança
O vídeo conta a história de Michael Jordan, um dos maiores jogadores de basquete de todos os tempos, e como a perda de seu pai o levou a abandonar o esporte que o tornou famoso para tentar o beisebol. Essa narrativa real combina emoção, luta e mudança, oferecendo um contexto rico para praticar inglês. Ao ouvir sobre momentos intimos, como a relação de Jordan com seu pai, e eventos impactantes, como o assassinato, os aprendizes podem se conectar com o conteúdo, o que ajuda a fixar o vocabulário e a compreensão.
Trechos Úteis e Colocações para Memorizar
- "Three straight championships": Três campeonatos consecutivos. Essa expressão é comum em esportes e mostra a ideia de sequência sem interrupção.
- "Pull over to the side of the road": Parar no acostamento. Útil para descrever situações de trânsito ou descanso durante uma viagem.
- "Dump a body": Jogar um corpo. Embora seja uma expressão forte, ela é usada em contextos de crime e ajuda a expandir o vocabulário técnico.
- "Give guidance": Oferecer orientação. Uma colocação essencial para falar sobre apoio emocional ou profissional.
Seu Desafio de Shadowing: Repetir com Intenção
O shadowing em inglês é uma técnica poderosa para melhorar a pronúncia e a fluência. Para esse vídeo, escolha um trecho de 30 segundos, como a fala de Larry Bird sobre Jordan ("That was not Michael Jordan out there..."). Reproduza o áudio, pause e repita imediatamente, tentando imitar a entonação, a velocidade e a ênfase. Faça isso 5 vezes. Essa prática ajuda a treinar o cérebro a processar o idioma de forma mais natural e a melhorar a capacidade de se comunicar oralmente. Se precisar de um shadowing site para auxiliar, busque plataformas que permitem controlar a velocidade do áudio. Lembre-se: o shadow speech não é sobre perfeito, mas sobre se acostumar a falar no ritmo do inglês. Aprender inglês com vídeos como esse torna o estudo prático e envolvente, pois você aprende em contextos reais.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.